ECE683

Fall 2005

ECE683 Computer Network Design and Analysis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Nirwan Ansari
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Newark College of Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Office	223 ECEC
E-mail	nirwan.ansari@njit.edu
Phone	(973) 596-3670
Fax	(973) 596-5680
Office Hours	Tue:5:30-6:30 pm; Wed: 12-1 pm. Others by appointments.

Grading

Grading: Mid-term 35%; Final 45%; Assignments/Quizzes 20%. By default, there is a quiz every week.

Honor Code

The NJIT Honor Code will be upheld, and any violations will be brought to the immediate attention of the Dean of Students.

Tentative Course Schedule	Week
Warriors of the Net Communication Networks and Services Network Architecture and Services Telegraph Networks & Message Switching Telephone Networks and Circuit Switching Computer Networks & Packet Switching Future Network Architectures and Services Key Factors in Network Evolution	1
Applications and Layered Architectures Protocols, Services & Layering OSI Reference Model TCP/IP Architecture How the Layers Work Together Berkeley Sockets Application Layer Protocols & Utilities	2-3
Random Processes and Simple Queueing Models	4-5
Circuit-Switching Networks Multiplexing SONET Transport Networks Circuit Switches The Telephone Network Signaling Traffic and Overload Control in Telephone Networks Cellular Telephone Networks	6-7
Mid-term Exam	8
Peer-to-Peer Protocols Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Service Models ARQ Protocols and Reliable Data Transfer Flow Control Timing Recovery TCP Reliable Stream Service & Flow Control	9-10
Data Link Control Framing Point-to-Point Protocol High-Level Data Link Control Link Sharing Using Statistical Multiplexing	10-11
Medium Access Control Protocols Multiple Access Communications Random Access Scheduling	12
Packet-Switching Networks Network Services and Internal Network Operation Packet Network Topology Datagrams and Virtual Circuits Routing in Packet Networks Shortest Path Routing	13-14

Texts

A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communications Networks, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004.
Lecture notes